New York Times bestselling author Joni Rodgers was born into a family of gospel/bluegrass performers and grew up on stage, opening for huge-haired country music legends of the 60s and 70s. She continued performing until 1994, when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She used the chemo downtime to complete her first two novels and went on to author, coauthor and ghostwrite more than two dozen bestselling books, both fiction and nonfiction. Joni lives on the beach in Washington State with her husband, multimedia artist Gary Rodgers. "Joni Rodgers lives, loves and writes without a safety net." ~ Entertainment Weekly "Rodgers' strength is a womanly wise, laugh-through-tears appreciation of life." ~ Publishers Weekly